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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Spanish cinema. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999 (OCoLC)607420407 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter William Evans |
ISBN: | 0198184158 9780198184157 019818414X 9780198184140 |
OCLC Number: | 41547861 |
Description: | xxii, 350 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Prologue : The long march of the Spanish cinema towards itself / José Luis Borau --!Bienvenido Mr Marshall! (Berlanga, 1952) / Wendy Rolph -- In search of a new Spanish realism : Bardem's Calle mayor (1956) / Stephen Roberts -- Saura's Los golfos (1959; released 1962) : heralding a new cinema for the 1960s / Maria Delgado -- Culture and acculturation in Manuel Summers's Del rosa ... al amarillo (1963) / Susan Martin-Márquez -- Fetishism and the problem of sexual difference in Buñuel's Tristana (1970) / Jo Labanyi -- Between metaphysics and scientism : rehistoricizing Víctor Erice's El espíritu de la colmena (1973) / Paul Julian Smith -- Furtivos (Borau, 1975) : my mother, my lover / Peter William Evans -- Sex change and cultural transformation in Aranda and Abril's Cambio de sexo (1977) / Marsha Kinder -- Feminism, politics, and psychosis in Fernán Gómez's Mi hija Hildegart (1977) / Dominic Keown -- El corazón del bosque (Gutiérrez Aragón, 1979) : mist, myth, and history / John Hopewell -- Female subjectivity in Gary Cooper que estás en los cielos (Miró, 1980) / Rikki Morgan -- Re-imaging the community : Imanol Uribe's La muerte de Mikel (1983) and the cinema of transition / Marvin D'Lugo -- Epílogo (Suárez, 1984) / Xon de Ros --?Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto? (Almodóvar, 1984) / Núria Triana-Toribio -- La vida alegre (Colomo, 1986) / Robin Fiddian -- Las cosas del querer (Chávarri, 1989) / Chris Perriam -- Motherland : space, femininity, and Spanishness in Jamón jamón (Bigas Luna, 1992) / Celestino Deleyto -- Promiscuity, pleasure, and girl power : Fernando Trueba's Belle époque (1992) / Barry Jordan -- Julio Medem's Vacas (1991) : historicizing the forest / Isabel C. Santaolalla -- The eroteticism of Nadie hablará de nosotras cuando hayamos muerto (Díaz Yanes, 1995) / Bernard P.E. Bentley. |
Responsibility: | edited by Peter William Evans. |
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twenty excellent studies of films ... covering significant landmarks of Spanish cinema over the period 1952-1995. ... For the reader onterested in one particular film or director, the book is a treat. Expert knowledge of cinema in general and of a director's work in particular combines with a sensitivity to Spanish history, society and politics, resulting in in-depth contexualized analyses of films. A random sample of the essays points to the originality, varietyand often exceptional quality of the critical readings. ... The choice of directors and films ensures a high level of critical engagement, especially with reference to controversial topics. * Maria Donapetry, MLR, 96.I, 2001 * Peter William Evans has assembled a fascinating guide to the achievements of twenty Spanish film-makers over a period of forty years, from the mid-1950s to 1995 ... This book will undoubtedly become a key text for students and specialists in Spanish film. * B.W.Ife, TLS, 21 July 2000 * Read more...


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